Matt Brei wrote:
Greetings,
Anyone having what seems to be a heat problem with a 9700 or any other
newer radeon that uses the fglrx driver from ATI for that matter. I
Doesn't this video card come with an onboard fan? Have you tried running itRight away I shut down and opened up the case to feel the video card and sure enough it was running quite hot. I didn't feel like messing with it so I just left the machine off so it could cool down over night. At first when I power up it runs fine. In the time that its taken me to get this far into this message it has started again. I've tried another
with the case open just to make sure that the fan *is* indeed working? ... if it *didn't*
come with its own fan and heat sink, then you were sold bogus goods, IMVHO...
Your problem sounds more like a hardware glitch, rather than something caused
by software (...short of a virus !).
HTH,
Elton Woo ;-)
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